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Tarikhi, Parviz |
The Iranian Space Endeavor |
I06437 |
2015 |
eBook |
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Hagler, Gina |
Modeling Ships and Space Craft |
I06399 |
2013 |
eBook |
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| 203 |
Heiken, Grant |
On the Moon |
I06380 |
2007 |
eBook |
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| 204 |
Harvey, Brian |
Emerging Space Powers |
I06277 |
2010 |
eBook |
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| 205 |
Magionami, Paolo |
Gli anni della Luna |
I06242 |
2009 |
eBook |
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| 206 |
Seedhouse, Erik |
Virgin Galactic |
I06239 |
2015 |
eBook |
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| 207 |
Burgess, Colin |
Liberty Bell 7 |
I06202 |
2014 |
eBook |
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| 208 |
Evans, Ben |
The Twenty-first Century in Space |
I06182 |
2015 |
eBook |
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Burgess, Colin |
The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team |
I06080 |
2009 |
eBook |
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Harvey, Brian |
Soviet and Russian Lunar Exploration |
I06078 |
2007 |
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| Title | The Iranian Space Endeavor : Ambitions and Reality |
| Author(s) | Tarikhi, Parviz |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2015. |
| Description | XII, 314 p. 120 illus., 102 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | For those who see the trend of progress and movement of the Iranian space endeavor from the outside, it can be difficult to understand what goes on behind the scenes. However, for one who observes these events firsthand, they take on a very different meaning. In this book, the author brings new and different profiles of Iran???s space endeavor to light. Iran claims to be the ninth leading country in the world capable of manufacturing satellites and launching them, plans to land an astronaut on the Moon within a decade, and says its own president plans to be the first Iranian astronaut to travel into space. The author??explains in this book??that not all of these claims are quite as they seem.?? In addition to technical explanations, the book also includes historical, legal, social and cultural aspects of Iran???s space program as well. It is the author???s goal to create a tangible feeling of Iran???s space endeavor for the readers |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319053479 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Aerospace engineering
2. Aerospace Technology and Astronautics
3. ASTRONAUTICS
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. ECONOMIC POLICY
7. Popular Science, general
8. Popular works
9. R & D/Technology Policy
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| Title | Modeling Ships and Space Craft : The Science and Art of Mastering the Oceans and Sky |
| Author(s) | Hagler, Gina |
| Publication | New York, NY, Springer New York, 2013. |
| Description | XIV, 249 p. 112 illus., 11 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Modeling Ships and Space Craft: The Science and Art of Mastering the Oceans and Sky begins with the theories of Aristotle and Archimedes, moving on to examine the work of Froude and Taylor, the early aviators and the Wright Brothers, Goddard and the other rocket men, and the computational fluid dynamic models of our time. It examines the ways each used fluid dynamic principles in the design of their vessels. In the process, this book covers the history of hydrodynamic (aero and fluid) theory and its progression ??? with some very accessible science examples ??? including seminal theories. Hydrodynamic principles in action are also explored with examples from nature and the works of man. This is a book for anyone interested in the history of technology ??? specifically the methods and science behind the use of scale models and hydrodynamic principles in the marine and aeronautical designs of today |
| ISBN,Price | 9781461445968 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Aerospace engineering
2. Aerospace Technology and Astronautics
3. ASTRONAUTICS
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. Fluid- and Aerodynamics
7. FLUIDS
8. HISTORY
9. HISTORY OF SCIENCE
10. Popular Science, general
11. Popular works
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| Title | On the Moon : The Apollo Journals |
| Author(s) | Heiken, Grant;Jones, Eric |
| Publication | New York, NY, Springer New York, 2007. |
| Description | XIV, 492 p. 24 illus : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Public interest in the first lunar landing transcended political, economic and social borders ??? the world was briefly united by the courage of the crew, and the wonder of the accomplishment. Prompted by the rivalry of the Cold War, Apollo 11 and the five missions that subsequently landed on the Moon were arguably the finest feats of exploration in human history. But these were more than exercises in ???flags and footprints???, because the missions involved the crews making geological field trips on a low gravity site while wearing pressure suits, carrying life-support systems on their backs and working against an unforgiving time line. The missions delivered not only samples of moonrock, but also hard-learned lessons for how to work on the surface of another planet, and this experience will be crucial to planning the resumption of the human exploration of the Moon and going on to Mars |
| ISBN,Price | 9780387489407 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Aerospace engineering
2. Aerospace Technology and Astronautics
3. ASTRONAUTICS
4. ASTRONOMY
5. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
6. Astronomy???Observations
7. EBOOK
8. EBOOK - SPRINGER
9. GEOLOGY
10. Observations, Astronomical
11. PLANETOLOGY
12. Popular Science in Astronomy
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| Title | Emerging Space Powers : The New Space Programs of Asia, the Middle East and South-America |
| Author(s) | Harvey, Brian;Smid, Henk H. F;Pirard, Theo |
| Publication | New York, NY, 1. Imprint: Praxis
2. Praxis, 2010. |
| Description | 732 p. 100 illus : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This work introduces the important emerging space powers of the world. Brian Harvey describes the origins of the Japanese space program, from rocket designs based on WW II German U-boats to tiny solid fuel 'pencil' rockets, which led to the launch of the first Japanese satellite in 1970. The next two chapters relate how Japan expanded its space program, developing small satellites into astronomical observatories and sending missions to the Moon, Mars, comet Halley, and asteroids. Chapter 4 describes how India's Vikram Sarabhai developed a sounding rocket program in the 1960s. The following chapter describes the expansion of the Indian space program. Chapter 6 relates how the Indian space program is looking ahead to the success of the moon probe Chandrayan, due to launch in 2008, and its first manned launching in 2014. Chapters 7, 8, and 9 demonstrate how, in Iran, communications and remote sensing drive space technology. Chapter 10 outlines Brazil's road to space, begun in the mid-1960's with the launch of the Sonda sounding rockets. The following two chapters describe Brazil's satellites and space launch systems and plans for the future. Chapters 13 and 14 study Israel's space industry. The next chapters look at the burgeoning space programs of North and South Korea. The book ends by contrasting and comparing all the space programs and speculating how they may evolve in the future. An appendix lists all launches and launch attempts to date of the emerging space powers |
| ISBN,Price | 9781441908742 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Aerospace engineering
2. Aerospace Technology and Astronautics
3. ASTRONAUTICS
4. ASTRONOMY
5. EBOOK
6. EBOOK - SPRINGER
7. HISTORY
8. HISTORY OF SCIENCE
9. Popular Science in Astronomy
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| Title | Gli anni della Luna : 1950-1972: l???epoca d???oro della corsa allo spazio |
| Author(s) | Magionami, Paolo |
| Publication | Milano, Springer Milan, 2009. |
| Description | IX, 235 pagg : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Il 4 ottobre 1957 il bip bip cosmico dello Sputnik il primo satellite artificiale a ruotare attorno alla Terra, apre ufficialmente l???era spaziale. La notizia del lancio comunicata dalla Tass fa il giro del mondo pi?? velocemente del satellite stesso suscitando perplessit??, meraviglia, stupore, ammirazione. Per gli Stati Uniti la sconfitta ?? senza precedenti. L???immagine della superpotenza tecnologicamente pi?? avanzata del mondo crolla di fronte al bip bip cosmico del ???compagno di viaggio ??? russo. Sotto lo spettro di una guerra nucleare, inizia un???epoca straordinaria per la conquista dello spazio, segnata dalle grandi, storiche, tappe come quella di Yuri Gagarin o di Valentina Tereshkova ma anche dal grande entusiasmo popolare che vede la corsa alla Luna, Marte e le stelle traguardo ormai a portata di mano. I formidabili satelliti sovietici scalzano Sophia Loren dalle copertine delle riviste di costume, Yuri Gagarin irrompe tra le pagine dei fotoromanzi, John Glenn e soci firmano per Life un contratto milionario senza aver fatto nulla; razzi e astronavi spingono in soffitta Topolino. Inizia una storia nella storia, tratteggiata e ripercorsa utilizzando le parole di quel tempo, riscrivendo le vicende della conquista dello spazio con i toni tipici di un???epoca di fermenti e tensioni, dominata dalla Guerra Fredda ma anche dal desiderio di raggiungere le stelle |
| ISBN,Price | 9788847011007 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Aerospace engineering
2. Aerospace Technology and Astronautics
3. ASTRONAUTICS
4. ASTRONOMY
5. EBOOK
6. EBOOK - SPRINGER
7. HISTORY
8. HISTORY OF SCIENCE
9. Popular Science in Astronomy
10. Popular Science, general
11. Popular works
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| Title | Virgin Galactic : The First Ten Years |
| Author(s) | Seedhouse, Erik |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2015. |
| Description | XIX, 203 p. 85 illus., 76 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Thirty years ago when Sir Richard Branson called up Boeing and asked if they had a spare 747, few would have predicted the brash entrepreneur would so radically transform the placid business of air travel. But today, Branson flies airlines on six continents, employs hundreds of jets and, in 2014, was predicting that his spaceship company ??? Virgin Galactic ??? would soon open the space frontier to commercial astronauts, payload specialists, scientists and space tourists. With more than 600 seats sold at $250,000 each, what started off as a dream to send people just for the excitement to look back and marvel at Earth, was on the cusp of finally being turned into a business. Then, on October 21, 2014, tragedy struck. SpaceShipTwo was on its most ambitious test flight to date. Seconds after firing its engine, Virgin Galactic???s spaceship was breaking through the sound barrier. In just the three seconds that it took for the vehicle to climb from Mach 0.94 to Mach 1.02, co-pilot Mike Alsbury made what many close to the event believe was a fatal mistake that led to his death and the disintegration of SpaceShipTwo. Miraculously, the pilot, Peter Siebold, survived the 16-km fall back to Earth. Soon after the event Branson vowed to continue his space tourism venture. Already a second SpaceShipTwo is being built, and ticket-holders eagerly await the day when Virgin Galactic offers quick, routine and affordable access to the edge of space. This book explains the hurdles Virgin Galactic has had and still has to overcome en route to developing suborbital space travel as a profitable economic entity, and describes the missions that will be flown on board SpaceShipTwo Mk II, including high-altitude science studies, astronomy, life sciences, and microgravity physics |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319092621 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Aerospace engineering
2. Aerospace Technology and Astronautics
3. ASTRONAUTICS
4. ASTRONOMY
5. EBOOK
6. EBOOK - SPRINGER
7. Popular Science in Astronomy
8. SPACE SCIENCES
9. Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)
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| Title | Liberty Bell 7 : The Suborbital Mercury Flight of Virgil I. Grissom |
| Author(s) | Burgess, Colin |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2014. |
| Description | XXV, 275 p. 191 illus : online resource |
| Abstract Note | NASA???s Mercury astronauts were seven highly skilled professional test pilots. Each of them seemed to possess the strength of character and commitment necessary to overcome apparently insurmountable obstacles as the United States entered into a Cold War space race with the Soviet Union. This was never more evident than on the epic suborbital MR-4 flight of Liberty Bell 7 with astronaut Virgil (???Gus???) Grissom piloting the spacecraft to a successful splashdown, followed by the premature blowing of the craft???s explosive hatch. After a hurried exit and struggling to stay afloat, he could only watch helplessly as the recovery helicopter pilot valiantly fought a losing battle to save the sinking capsule. ?? That day NASA not only lost a spacecraft but came perilously close to losing one of its Mercury astronauts, a decorated Korean fighter pilot from Indiana who might one day have soared to the highest goal of them all, as the first person to set foot on the Moon. ?? For the first time, many of those closest to the flight of Liberty Bell 7 and astronaut Gus Grissom offer their stories and opinions on the dramatic events of July 21, 1961, and his later pioneering Gemini mission. They also tell of an often controversial life cut tragically and horrifically short in a launch pad fire that shocked the nation. ?? |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319043913 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Aerospace engineering
2. Aerospace Technology and Astronautics
3. ASTRONAUTICS
4. ASTRONOMY
5. EBOOK
6. EBOOK - SPRINGER
7. HISTORY
8. HISTORY OF SCIENCE
9. Popular Science in Astronomy
10. SPACE SCIENCES
11. Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)
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| Title | The Twenty-first Century in Space |
| Author(s) | Evans, Ben |
| Publication | New York, NY, Springer New York, 2015. |
| Description | XI, 519 p. 87 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This final entry in the History of Human Space Exploration mini-series by Ben Evans continues with an in-depth look at the latter part of the 20th century and the start of the new millennium. Picking up where Partnership in Space left off, the story commemorating the evolution of manned space exploration unfolds in further detail. More than fifty years after Yuri Gagarin???s pioneering journey into space, Evans extends his overview of how that momentous voyage continued through the decades which followed. The Twenty-first Century in Space, the sixth book in the series, explores how the fledgling partnership between the United States and Russia in the 1990s gradually bore fruit and laid the groundwork for today???s International Space Station. The narrative follows the convergence of the Shuttle and Mir programs, together with standalone missions, including servicing the Hubble Space Telescope, many of whose technical and human lessons enabled the first efforts to build the ISS in orbit. The book also looks to the future of developments in the 21st century |
| ISBN,Price | 9781493913077 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Aerospace engineering
2. Aerospace Technology and Astronautics
3. ASTRONAUTICS
4. ASTRONOMY
5. EBOOK
6. EBOOK - SPRINGER
7. Popular Science in Astronomy
8. SPACE SCIENCES
9. Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)
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| Title | The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team : Their Lives and Legacies |
| Author(s) | Burgess, Colin;Hall, Rex |
| Publication | New York, NY, 1. Imprint: Praxis
2. Springer New York, 2009. |
| Description | 356 p. 170 illus : online resource |
| Abstract Note | The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team will relate who these men were and offer far more extensive background stories, in addition to those of the more familiar names of early Soviet space explorers from that group. Many previously-unpublished photographs of these ???missing??? candidates will also be included for the first time in this book. It will be a detailed, but highly readable and balanced account of the history, training and experiences of the first group of twenty cosmonauts of the USSR. A covert recruitment and selection process was set in motion throughout the Soviet military in August 1959, just prior to the naming of America???s Mercury astronauts. Those selected were ordered to report for training at a special camp outside of Moscow in the spring of 1960. Just a year later, Senior Lieutenant Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Air Force (promoted in flight to the rank of major) was launched aboard a Vostok spacecraft and became the first person ever to achieve space flight and orbit the Earth |
| ISBN,Price | 9780387848242 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Aerospace engineering
2. Aerospace Technology and Astronautics
3. ASTRONAUTICS
4. ASTRONOMY
5. EBOOK
6. EBOOK - SPRINGER
7. HISTORY
8. History, general
9. Popular Science in Astronomy
10. SPACE SCIENCES
11. Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)
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| Title | Soviet and Russian Lunar Exploration |
| Author(s) | Harvey, Brian |
| Publication | New York, NY, 1. Imprint: Praxis
2. Springer New York, 2007. |
| Description | XXII, 318 p. 124 illus : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Little is known of Soviet and Russian lunar exploration although, in fact, the Soviet Union/Russia: Sent the first spaceships past the moon, the first to hit the moon and the first to circle the moon Was first to soft land on and orbit the moon Was first to send a spaceship around the moon and recover it on Earth Came very close to sending a cosmonaut around the moon first Built and successfully tested, in Earth orbit, a lunar lander Pioneered sophisticated, precise high-speed reentries into the Earth's atmosphere Came close to perfecting a giant moon rocket, the N-1 Retrieved three sets of rock samples from the moon by automatic spacecraft Landed advanced roving laboratories that explored the moon for months on end, traveling 48km Designed long-term lunar bases. These were remarkable achievements requiring a considerable level of engineering sophistication and have a place in the contemporary story of astronautics. Recent landings on Mars use, essentially, the very techniques developed by Russia to land on and explore the moon in the 1960s and 1970s. As an acknowledged expert and author of several books on the Soviet and Russian space programme, Brian Harvey is ideally suited to cover not only the engineering and scientific side but also the human stories of the Soviet and Russian lunar programme. These include those of the cosmonaut squad that trained to land on the moon, but was stood down, and of the designers who tried to realise the dream of a Russian moon, from Tikhonravov to Mishin: a Soviet lunar programme was first proposed by designer Mikhail Tikhonravov in a children???s magazine in 1951 and he persuaded a sceptical Soviet leadership of the value of a moon programme. Following Sputnik, the first lunar flights quickly achieved the key goals of hitting, circling and photographing the moon in 1959. The Soviet Union achieved all the early ???firsts??? in lunar exploration, such as soft landing and orbiting the moon, and Brian Harvey will recount the frantic efforts to rival America???s Apollo and the dramatic hours of 21st July 1969, when Russia tried to soft land Luna 15 in the Sea of Crises even as Armstrong and Aldrin explored the moon in the nearby Sea of Tranquility |
| ISBN,Price | 9780387739762 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Aerospace engineering
2. Aerospace Technology and Astronautics
3. ASTRONAUTICS
4. ASTRONOMY
5. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
6. Astronomy???Observations
7. EBOOK
8. EBOOK - SPRINGER
9. Observations, Astronomical
10. Popular Science in Astronomy
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